Subject: Re: bug#22815: 25.0.91; emacs-module.*

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:26:07 +0200

> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:09:57 +0900
> 
> > I was asking why couldn't the plug-in do the conversion, e.g., by
> > using libiconv?  Emacs is not the only piece of software that knows
> > how to convert from one encoding to another.
> 
>  I considered using libiconv once, but Emacs has the conversion
>  capability, so why not use it.

Because it can signal an error, if the encoding you pass is not a
valid coding-system that Emacs recognizes?